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The kanji 然: meaning, readings and stroke order

然

Meaning
natural, so
On reading
ゼン zen、ネン nen
Kun reading
—
Strokes
12
Radical
火 fire
Level
Level 4 · grade 4

Stroke order

Stroke order of 然, 12 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
tự nhiên, như vậy (nhiên)
Japanese
そのまま。そう いう ようす。
Korean
그러하다, 자연 (연)
Chinese
自然、这样

Readings, words and example sentences

ゼン zen · on reading

ネン nen · on reading

Practise writing 然 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 然 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 4 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.